Spanish vulture breeding experts will visit the Rhodope Mountains rewilding area this year to offer advice, while the reintroduction team will also consult NGOs Green Balkans and the Vulture Conservation Foundation (VCF), who are currently overseeing a cinereous vulture reintroduction programme in Bulgaria’s eastern Balkan Mountains. Panchkula: The Union Minister of State for Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Prakash Javadekar, has lauded the vulture breeding and conservation programme being carried out by the Haryana government in Pinjore. Category Archives: Vulture Breeding Programme. Future steps for the breeding program are: - forming of breeding pairs from the species Bearded vultures, Imperial eagles, Black vultures, Egyptian vultures and Griffon vultures, Lesser Kestrel.

“With the success the programme has become, I believe we would again touch the number of four crore vultures in the country in the […] The animals born in captivity are sometimes used to boost populations in the wild but, in most cases, the aim of these programmes is to create a sustainable back-up population , or Noah's Ark, should the fortunes of the wild population really take a turn for the worse. Young vultures from zoos are essential to the reintroduction project. Anecdotes of a VulPro Volunteer | Les Faber | Part 1. Now the RSPB has launched a vital breeding programme to re-establish colonies of the three Critically Endangered species. Uncategorized, Vulture Breeding Programme, Vulture Release. As studbook keeper and coordinator of the European breeding programme, therefore, Antwerp ZOO & Plankendael ZOO have been working intensively towards successful breeding, based on their own scientific research, for many years. Bearded Vulture EEP: guidelines for housing Bearded Vultures 2/31 INTRODUCTION The international Bearded Vulture breeding network (EEP – European Endangered Species Programme) is a collaboration between zoos and similar institutions, breeding centres, and private partners.

With regular funding from concerned people like you, this will continue with the hope that, by 2025, at least 40 per cent of vulture numbers can be reinstated and stable colonies can once again help keep the environment, and local communities, safe and healthy. Population management or breeding programmes for endangered species are one of the ways this is achieved. 930027969 June 3, 2020. Programme Manager: Shannon Hoffman – onair@africanraptor.co.za, Mobile +27 (0)82 925 3023 Facebook: African Raptor Centre Instagram: @Bred 4 the Wild Bred 4 the Wild Bearded Vulture Breeding Programme is an African Raptor Trust Project Trust No (IT 1467/2005/PMB), Non-Profit Organization 053-515-NPO, PBO No.